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Leah Samuel

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  • Reporter, Researcher, Editor and Writer, Freelance
Boston, Quincy
As seen in: Fox News, HuffPost, TIME, Data-Smart City Solutions, PBS, PBS NewsHour, Scientific American, The Conversation, Agenda (World Economic Forum), Chron and
Eclectic autodidact into science, history, crochet, music, trivia. Writer, big sister, auntie. Tweets mine alone.
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Leah Samuel is a staff reporter for STAT. A journalist for over 25 years, Leah’s work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country, including Harvard Magazine, Labor Notes, The Chicago Reporter, and PublicSource.org. Leah is also a film fan, history buff, science nerd, and trivia nut. When she's not working on a story, she frequently replaces her notebook and pen with yarn and a crochet hook.

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As the Detroit Pistons sought millions in tax breaks, team insiders gave thousands to Sheffield’s mayoral bid

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By Leah Samuel Verified, Christine Ferretti Verified
| Bridge Detroit Verified
This article first appeared on Outlier Media and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. At a Nov. 13 public hearing of Detroit City Council’s planning committee, the mood in the chamber tilted toward optimism.
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Detroit Pistons insiders gave thousands to Mary Sheffield’s campaign

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By Leah Samuel Verified
| Outlier Media
At a Nov. 13 public hearing of Detroit City Council’s planning committee, the mood in the chamber tilted toward optimism. Speaker after speaker endorsed plans for a new WNBA headquarters and youth sports complex — backed by Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores — urging approval of a nearly $40.7 million tax subsidy to clean up the former Uniroyal site on the Detroit River.
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As the Detroit Pistons sought millions in tax breaks, team insiders gave thousands to Sheffield’s mayoral bid

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By Leah Samuel Verified
| Flipboard
As the Detroit Pistons sought millions in tax breaks, team insiders gave thousands to Sheffield’s mayoral bid At a Nov. 13 public hearing of Detroit City Council’s planning committee, the mood in the chamber tilted toward optimism. Speaker after speaker …
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